Research on men and masculinities in South Africa, and the related intervention
programmes, depends largely on theories of gender developed in the Global North. Such …

This article discusses two complementary themes that play an important role in
contemporary South African political philosophy:(1) the racist tradition in Western …

Recently, the salient idea of personhood in the tradition of African philosophy has been
objected to on various grounds. Two such objections stand out the book deals with a lot …

This paper aims to indicate the sense in which Menkiti's normative conception of
personhood can be considered as gendered, ableist and anti-queer. I argue that Menkiti's …

There has been the recurrent suspicion that community, harmony, cohesion, and similar
relational goods as understood in the African ethical tradition threaten to occlude difference …

Abstract ENGLISH SUMMARY: In this dissertation I present the work of Nigerian feminist
sociologist, Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí, as a decolonising force having the power to disrupt sub …

This article addresses the persistent reality of gender-based violence in South Africa. It does
this by approaching the issue of gender from the African philosophical position of ubuntu …

Introduction. The contemporary European social and cultural landscape feels the pressure
of security challenges. It is true, that Europe has a strategy of overcoming the possible …

The conception of the human being remains a philosophical controversial discourse among
scholars to include Igbo extraction. The discourse has taken many dimensions describable …

In this paper I interpret the work of Nigerian feminist scholar Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí to be
embedded in a relational understanding of the subject that is prevalent in African thought. In …